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Josh Tominus, a 17-year-old high school senior from South Amboy, NJ, connected to the book so deeply he created a Tumblr, "TFIOS News," that has amassed more than 14,000 followers. His enthusiasm is fueled in part by his sister's fight with cystic fibrosis.

"It shows that people with diseases are normal," he says. "It's a personal thing. There's no book I can think of that compares. It's a genre unto its own.

Why the down-to-earth Shailene Woodley is the perfect fit for Hazel in TFIOS

Sometimes when you're around people who have been on movie sets a lot, people seem to lose the excitement versus the art, and the ability to be on a film set. Ansel came in with these fresh eyes and this beautiful innocence and excitement for what it meant to be making a movie. We instantly connected, and before Fault even came around for him, we struck up a really close friendship and instantaneously became very brother-sister. We have such deep reverence and pride for one another. We're completely different in almost every way, but are very intrigued by each other's differences, so when Fault came around, there was a fault in Hazel and Augustus's stars, but there wasn't a fault in our stars because we had that deep respect for one another. In real life, I look at him with such admiration and such love, and when you apply that to the rules and regulations of what it is to be in love with somebody, the natural chemistry is able to exist.

Mr. Neustadter, 37, and Mr. Weber, 36, got their start in 2006 by shopping an original script about a guy who gets his heart smashed after falling for an aloof girl — something that had really happened to Mr. Neustadter. The resulting movie, "(500) Days of Summer," was Fox Searchlight's biggest hit of 2009. Last year came "The Spectacular Now," an indie about love and alcoholism in high school. Adapted from Tim Tharp's novel of the same name, "The Spectacular Now" was a critical home run, sealing their standing as Hollywood's go-to channelers of tender teenage angst.

John Green's TFIOS has managed to illicit all different types of "Oooohhs" and "Aaaaahhhhss" from fans

Green said he initially resisted the idea of a film adaptation because he assumed Hollywood would try to minimize the painful parts of this story of two young cancer patients who fall in love, finding a reason to live as they face down death.

For instance, he didn't want the actress who plays Hazel (Shailene Woodly) to be depicted without the cannula breathing tube, even in the advertising – which he assumed would never happen.

Green began to change his mind when producer Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner grabbed him for a few minutes backstage at a middle school event, and did a quick sell.

"They said … 'We're going to see that Hazel has her cannula in every part of the movie. Her disability is going to be part of her life, but not the defining characteristic of her life," Green said. "They had three or four minutes to talk to me, and in those three minutes they said everything I wanted to hear."

A mild cheer went up for that.

"I felt like I had to let them try," Green said. "And I have to say they kept every promise.

John Green pulls a Stephen King

Authors aren't usually known for appearing in the film adaptions of their books. Horror writer Stephen King has become notorious for making small cameo appearances, like "Pizza Delivery Guy" in "Rose Red," "Hoagie Man" in "Knightriders" and "Man at Cash Point" in "Maximum Overdrive." So, John Green took a stab at it as "Man with Child."

Ansel Elgort, who plays Augustus Waters in TFIOS, posted the above film shot to his Instagram along with this message: "This is @johngreenwritesbooks attempting to make his acting debut. I say attempting because his scene got cut… BUT, you can see it on the DVD. (It's a deleted scene…) Not trying to be mean. ❤ You John. #johnsel"